Supreme Court Ohio ruling advances GOP agenda (Letters)

Now that the right-wing majority on the Supreme Court has given a green light for Republicans to deny those likely to vote for Democrats their right to vote, the party of, by and for the rich has a better chance of continuing to win elections and misgovern our nation even if a majority of Americans strongly disapprove of their actions. (Can anyone believe that Republicans respect democracy?)

Republicans will continue to allow Trump - a Mussolini clone - to alienate our friends and allies across the world, strengthen our adversaries (Russia and China), weaken our economy through trade wars, and destroy the environment that sustains us. The Republican party's sole imperative is to give more wealth and power to the already wealthy and powerful while pretending to help the struggling masses.

Yet many Americans view the charlatan-in-chief, who may be the world's most gifted liar, as the only honest person in Washington. Plato worried that sophists who know virtually nothing about a subject have the rhetorical skills to persuade the poorly informed to reject the knowledge of the best informed. He was right to worry.

Republicans have stacked the deck to maintain their misrule. Our only hope for the future is that in November, masses of people will get to the polls and vote for Democrats to throw the Republican bums out.